Turkish and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Abdullah Gul and Elmar Mammadyarov met in Istanbul to discuss the Azeri-Turkish relations. Abdullah Gul informed his Azeri counterpart of the EU-Turkey talks. In his turn Elmar Mammadyarov presented the pre-election situation in Azerbaijan. Besides, the parties discussed the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement and a number of economic issues including the schedule of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline construction.